In our search for security, knowing God is always the answer

1 John 4:18: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."

Science of Mind textbook, page 406: "If our spirit is at the center of everything and is always responding to our thought, there is no limit to its manifestation for us except the limitations we set. And the absolute is in relationship to itself alone. It is not circumscribed by any form but remains independent of all forms. It can as easily create a new form for us as to perpetuate an old one."

Do you work for a living or live for your working? In this message we want to emphasize the search for security. Not so much of what to find, where to look, or how to obtain security, but how to move toward it. Until we see the inside of things, the outside will be totally out of perspective or out of focus. No man really saw planet earth until a few men got far away from it, and took pictures.

Our church is supposed to guide us to meet our economic, health, relationship and career fears with renewed spiritual understanding to the best of our ability. Our real power, which helps us to meet any human situation, is to be found in what we believe about God and our self. The right belief and spirit will create through us what we want and need. With the wrong beliefs spirit will perpetuate old habits, failures, hurts and misery.

Webster's definition of security is "Freedom from exposure to danger; safety." Science of mind definition of security is this: "Knowing God is always the answer, always here, always protective and one's soul is never in danger." We must in our search for security live free from guilt knowing that our faith is on deposit, and God has a supply account in our name.

Here are a few factors to be considered in our search for security.

* Moving: Our willingness to change. No sense of security can come to one who cannot move with the times.

* Letting god: Learning to release small things (petty unimportant things); thus making a place for what really matters to take place.

* Acceptance: The ability to receive counsel, which helps us to do the things that really matter. Distinguishing between what we can change and what we cannot change.

* Vision: The training of the inner eye through meditation, study and true prayer, the prayer of listening to that small voice from within that speaks to us in silence.

* Non-resistance: Not doing the former things that brought us no real good. Job, guilt, resentment, anxiety of the unknown is resistance. We need to learn to let people, places and things be what they are.

Romans 12:21: "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." By doing so we can see our security right in the midst of our insecurities. And so it is.